Silver Dollar City, near Branson, opened to an enthusiastic reception. The 1880s Ozark Mountain-themed park began fairly small, with just a handful of stores, a church, a log cabin, and a stage production based on the Hatfields and McCoys. The park drew national attention in 2007 when ABC’s “Good Morning America” named Silver Dollar City’s …
Silver Dollar City
Wearing a beard is no new trend. The first Europeans to explore Missouri, Louis Joliet and Jacque Marquette, both kept long whiskers, and it seems nearly every other Civil War general rocked facial hair of some sort. However, after the beard’s popularity peaked—arguably with the Ulysses S. Grant administration—it didn’t make a comeback until the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Since then, it …